Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics

An Ethics Committee's Perspective on a Right to Die:
Background

The following are key figures whose ideas will be discussed at this forum. This background section also provides a number of case-studies that will be used in the discussions of a patient's right to die. The central case will be that of Dax Cowart.

Euthanasia Includes opinions of the 9th Circuit Federal Court.
Casuistry Includes a discussion of case-based moral reasoning in Josen and Toulmin's The Abuse of Casuistry, J.D. Arras's "Getting Down to Cases: The Revival of Casuistry in Bioethics ( Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and C. Strong's "Justification in Ethics" in Brody (Ed.) Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics.
Ethics Committees Includes a discussion of E.M. Winston's "Ethics Commitee Simluations" (Teaching Philosophy), Jonathan Moreno's Deciding Together, and Brendan Minogue's Bioethics: A Committee Approach
Case Studies This section will nclude brief descriptions of the cases of Karen Ann Quinlin and Elizabeth Bouvia. An extended study of the Dax Cowart Case will also provided. Material gathered for this latter case comes from a CD-ROM entitled A Right to Die? The Dax Cowart Case (Routledge, 1996)
A significant amount of information about the general topic of euthanasia can be found throughout the World Wide Web. Larry Hinman's Ethics Updates site provides a valuable starting point for this general issue.
List of invited participants in this Forum
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Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon and Charles Ess, Drury College